RESPECT Photo Exhibit

respect is a monumental photo exhibit
that aims to inspire and inform us all
of the Canadian boreal forest welcome to
watchmojo.com my name is Andrea tram and
today I’ll be talking with Louise la
figlia the curator of the event what is
the mission of reporters communication
well I mission is to inform the public
on world issues and cultures using
photography and exhibitions eighty
percent of people do not go to the
forest so we say to ourselves okay you
know don’t go to the forest will take
the forest to them so that was the
philosophy behind it so we were asked to
produce an exhibition on the boreal
forest so we designed a journey and in a
very special journey by which the pilots
would take a small plane and decide to
cross the country because it doesn’t
know his country and has he moves
towards the west he stops in different
provinces and hops along different
photographers we work with some
wonderful photographers I mean across
Canada from Quebec to UConn from bc we
didn’t tell them what you should do this
you should do that they just took off
and they just follow their instinct and
use their challenge to capture what you
see today it’s a huge task I’m wondering
what was sort of challenges did you come
across and what is the biggest one for
you well one of the signs that we have
at the beginning it says the chronology
of all challenges I mean everything was
a challenge
putting this show together getting the
money and then getting the itinerary in
flying we flew what we call without a
net for most of the time so if anything
had happened to the motor where we have
no way to land in order to bring those
pictures we had to take whist I hope
this is a love story between city people
and enforced